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The Pirate Party of Russia (Пиратская Партия России, ППР) is a political party in Russia based on the model of the Swedish Piratpartiet. It was founded in July 2009.

History
Already in 2007, in Russia existed a pirate party movement called the Pirate Union-League of Сreative Freedom (SP - LTS), which became inactive. Due to the success of other international pirate parties in summer of 2009, todays Pirate Party of Russia was founded. In January 2010, the first elections of the party's leadership took place.